unreality

Example Sentences

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But they are facing threats from all sides: A vengeful president; a distracted and disengaged audience used to endless scrolling and pop-pop-pops of entertainment; the creeping unreality of A.I.

From Slate • Jan. 5, 2026

There is, though, an anachronistic unreality to all of this.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2025

The High Court ultimately described some of his submissions as having a "distinct air of unreality".

From BBC • May 24, 2025

Herbert Simon said, "If you go down this path you're basing all of economics on the principle of unreality."

From Salon • Feb. 1, 2025

They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner